Precious Bane by Mary Webb

Precious Bane by Mary Webb

This is the story of us all at Sarn, of Mother and Gideon and me, and Jancis, and Wizard Beguildy, and the two or three other folk that lived in those parts, that I did set out to tell. There were but a few, and maybe always will be, for there's a discouragement about the place. It may be the water lapping, year in and year out--everywhere you look and listen, water; or the big trees waiting and considering on your right hand and on your left; or the unbreathing quiet of the place, as if it was created but an hour gone, and not created for us.

MARY WEBB is a former newspaper reporter and currently teaches high school English in Patterson, Louisiana. The San Antonio Express-News, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, The (Monroe, Louisiana) News-Star, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press' Colorado Bureau, The (Houma, LA) Courier, and The Denton Record-Chronicle are among the publications for which Mary Webb has written. She is currently employed as an English and Speech instructor at Westgate High School in Iberia Parish. She had previously taught English 1 at Patterson High School in St. Louis. Mary Parish in Louisiana, as well as Morgan City, LA, and Dallas, TX.

She and her husband, Corwin, live in Patterson, Louisiana, with their two children, Quentin and Jory, who are featured in The Summer of Superheroes and the Creation of Iron Boy. This is her first book to be published. Mary earned a bachelor's degree in mass communication with a emphasis in print journalism from Xavier University of Louisiana.